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Photographs of Wyndham Lewis, detail of a mural, a Cubo-Futurust illustration from the Timon of Athens series (1912), "raging against a philistine society which rejected his avant-garde ideas". Some of Wadsworth’s woodcuts, including View of a Town (c.1918) and Slack Bottom (1914), with images reflecting his industrial background. A work by Etchells. Industrial machinery. Commentary says that "the principle focus of Vorticist art was the machine" which they did not want to romanticise or "render it in blurred motion" like the Futurists. Paintings of machinery of different kinds. Gaudier-Brzeska’s Carved Toothbrush Handle (1914) and a bronze doorknocker. Epstein’s Rock Drill (1913-1914). Real drill in action. Sketches of a drill, a symbol of the Vorticists themselves. The statue with plaster figure: commentary quotes Epstein’s words on making the sculpture. Doves. Epstein’s marble Doves (1914-1915). Gaudier-Brzeska’s Birds Erect (1914) and Bird Swallowing Fish (1914). Christopher Nevinson’s The Arrival (1914) and Bomberg’s In the Hold (c.1915). Sketch. Bomberg’s Mudbath (1914). Illustration for Timon of Athens. Wadsworth’s Recital (1915). Several other paintings including versions of Wadsworth’s The Open Window (c.1915) and Lewis’s Workshop (1914).